mutual aid – The Red Clarion

Why I Left the CPUSA

July 19, 2024 USU Editorial Board 0

Comrade Birb details their reasons for leaving the CPUSA in November 2023 and gives an update on their current organizing efforts.

[{"id":3535,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2024-07-15-state-of-control\/","name":"2024-07-15-state-of-control","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/img_4328-1.jpg","alt":""},"title":"State of Control: Phoenix and the American Fascists","excerpt":"In reality, the Phoenix Program never went away. Now it is mushrooming up again as the Department of Homeland Security, militarized police, targeted murder of Black Lives Matter activists, and the not one but many Cop Cities springing up all over the United States.","content":"\u201cThe struggle\u2026 is in essence a struggle for political domination\u2026 The primary issue is control over people\u2026 our adversaries have generally employed armed force\u2026 primarily as a political abrasive intended","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Jul 15, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-07-15 16:33:58","modifiedDate":"2024-07-15 12:33:58","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-15 16:33:58","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/counterprop\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Counterpropaganda<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/current-events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Current Events<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/asia-east\/\" rel=\"category tag\">East Asia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/fascism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fascism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/us-gov\/\" rel=\"category tag\">U.S. Government<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/counterprop\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Counterpropaganda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/current-events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Current Events<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/asia-east\/\" rel=\"category tag\">East Asia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/fascism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fascism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/us-gov\/\" rel=\"category tag\">U.S. Government<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/central-intelligence-agency\/' rel='post_tag'>Central Intelligence Agency<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cop-city\/' rel='post_tag'>Cop City<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/' rel='post_tag'>Department of Homeland Security<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/dhs\/' rel='post_tag'>DHS<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/domestic-gladio\/' rel='post_tag'>domestic GLADIO<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/federal-bureau-of-investigation\/' rel='post_tag'>Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/national-security-state\/' rel='post_tag'>national security state<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/phoenix\/' rel='post_tag'>Phoenix<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/phoenix-program\/' rel='post_tag'>Phoenix Program<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/u-s-empire\/' rel='post_tag'>U.S. Empire<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/vietnam\/' rel='post_tag'>Vietnam<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":22,"sec":1},"status":"publish"},{"id":3487,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2024-07-05-towards-an-nyc-league\/","name":"2024-07-05-towards-an-nyc-league","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png","alt":""},"title":"Towards a New York City League of Workers and Students","excerpt":"This document represents only the first step in a plan to ground our analysis, as a movement, firmly in reality, and to depart from the bourgeois mythmaking.","content":"Note from the Editorial Board: This article appears in full on our online edition. It is our intention to reprint it serially in the next several print editions. It should","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Jul 5, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-07-05 20:46:03","modifiedDate":"2024-07-05 18:22:34","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-07-05 22:22:34","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/analysis\/' rel='post_tag'>analysis<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/marxism-leninism\/' rel='post_tag'>Marxism-Leninism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/new-york-city\/' rel='post_tag'>New York City<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/organization\/' rel='post_tag'>organization<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/organizing\/' rel='post_tag'>Organizing<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/struggle\/' rel='post_tag'>struggle<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/study-group\/' rel='post_tag'>Study Group<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/study-guide\/' rel='post_tag'>study guide<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/theory\/' rel='post_tag'>theory<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":47,"sec":34},"status":"publish"},{"id":3369,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2024-06-14-against-cpusas-colonizer-communism\/","name":"2024-06-14-against-cpusas-colonizer-communism","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/american_indian_reservations.png","alt":""},"title":"Against CPUSA's Colonizer \"Communism\"","excerpt":"Amid movement-wide confusion and CPUSA mystification of the \"primary contradiction\" within the U.S. Empire, now more than ever we need to clearly understand why settler colonialism is the principal contradiction in need of being addressed.","content":"On October 7th, 2023, a force of fighters from the Palestinian Resistance Factions conducted a large-scale offensive operation against the zionist entity, unprecedented in size and scope. In response, the","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Jun 14, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-06-14 15:49:13","modifiedDate":"2024-06-14 17:29:03","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-06-14 21:29:03","commentCount":"2","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/africa\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Africa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/imperialism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Imperialism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/indigenous\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Indigenous Peoples<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/latin-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Latin America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/swana\/palestine\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Palestine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/opp-lib\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Racial Oppression<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/africa\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Africa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/imperialism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Imperialism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/indigenous\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Indigenous Peoples<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/latin-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Latin America<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/swana\/palestine\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Palestine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/opp-lib\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Racial Oppression<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/anti-imperialism\/' rel='post_tag'>anti-imperialism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/colonialism\/' rel='post_tag'>colonialism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cpusa\/' rel='post_tag'>CPUSA<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cpusa-convention-2024\/' rel='post_tag'>CPUSA Convention 2024<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/decolonization\/' rel='post_tag'>decolonization<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/imperialism\/' rel='post_tag'>imperialism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/indigenous-nations\/' rel='post_tag'>Indigenous nations<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/israel\/' rel='post_tag'>Israel<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/national-liberation\/' rel='post_tag'>national liberation<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/new-africa\/' rel='post_tag'>New Africa<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/new-afrika\/' rel='post_tag'>New Afrika<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/palestine\/' rel='post_tag'>Palestine<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/u-s-empire\/' rel='post_tag'>U.S. Empire<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/cde-peter\/' rel='author'>Cde. Peter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":17,"sec":57},"status":"publish"},{"id":3054,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2024-04-02-the-cult-building-tendency\/","name":"2024-04-02-the-cult-building-tendency","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_2940-1.png","alt":"The letters IMT and a hammer and sickle in white on a red background"},"title":"The Cult-Building Tendency","excerpt":"This is the essence of the cult-form: in order to extract labor and money from its membership, commit abuses with impunity, and maintain absolute control over the money and labor lodged in the organization and its members, the leadership must maintain absolute control and block all avenues of accountability.","content":"A study of the Revolutionary Communists of America Our movement, the Communist movement, is in dire need of reassessment in the West. We are faced with a proliferation of sects","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Apr 2, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-02 14:56:37","modifiedDate":"2024-04-02 18:11:42","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-04-02 22:11:42","commentCount":"3","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/struggle\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Struggle<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cult-building\/' rel='post_tag'>cult-building<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/marxism-leninism\/' rel='post_tag'>Marxism-Leninism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/revolutionary-communist-international\/' rel='post_tag'>Revolutionary Communist International<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/sectarianism\/' rel='post_tag'>sectarianism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/struggle\/' rel='post_tag'>struggle<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/trotskyism\/' rel='post_tag'>Trotskyism<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":71,"sec":47},"status":"publish"}]

[{"id":2914,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2024-02-22-cpusa-hypocrisy\/","name":"2024-02-22-cpusa-hypocrisy","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/SAM.png","alt":""},"title":"A True Accounting of the CPUSA In Its Members Own Words","excerpt":"Exploring an anti-democratic organization designed to stifle the Communist movement.","content":"The Communist Party of the USA\u2019s long-delayed convention has been scheduled for June 7-9 of this year. The party has swollen in size over the past few years as class","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Feb 22, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-02-22 13:22:00","modifiedDate":"2024-02-29 09:42:48","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-02-29 14:42:48","commentCount":"2","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/feat-lr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/long-reads\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Long-Reads<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/\" rel=\"category tag\">North America<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cointelpro\/' rel='post_tag'>COINTELPRO<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/communism\/' rel='post_tag'>Communism<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/cpusa\/' rel='post_tag'>CPUSA<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/democratic-party\/' rel='post_tag'>Democratic Party<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/fbi\/' rel='post_tag'>FBI<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/revisionism\/' rel='post_tag'>Revisionism<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/cde-g-gracchus\/' rel='author'>Cde. G. Gracchus<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":22,"sec":13},"status":"publish"},{"id":1911,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/2023-05-30-the-commune\/","name":"2023-05-30-the-commune","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hotel-de-Ville.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Revolutionary History: The Commune is Dead \u2014 Long Live the Commune!","excerpt":"152 years ago, the city of Paris threw off the shackles of the reactionary government of France and repudiated the conservative political order.","content":"152 years ago, the city of Paris threw off the shackles of the reactionary government of France and repudiated the conservative political order. The radical Blanquists, Jacobins, and Proudhonists of","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"May 30, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-05-30 11:47:57","modifiedDate":"2023-06-07 22:18:31","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-06-08 02:18:31","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/europe\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/int-com\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International Communism and Social Revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/europe\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Europe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/tags\/int-com\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International Communism and Social Revolution<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/commune\/' rel='post_tag'>Commune<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/france\/' rel='post_tag'>France<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/theory\/' rel='post_tag'>theory<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":38,"sec":4},"status":"publish"},{"id":1757,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/5-1-23-rev-history-haymarket\/","name":"5-1-23-rev-history-haymarket","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-asset.jpeg","alt":""},"title":"Revolutionary History: The Haymarket Massacre and the Origins of May Day","excerpt":"Eight men \u2014 socialist and anarchist leaders \u2014 stood accused. The trial, Illinois v. Spies et al., started on June 21, 1886, and went on until August 11. The judge was openly hostile to the defendants. No union members or anyone with socialist sympathies was permitted to be seated on the jury. The jury returned eight guilty verdicts. The judge sentenced all but one man to be hanged.","content":"Prelude The place was Chicago, the year 1886, and the ground fertile with revolution. With the Union\u2019s victory in the U.S. Civil War \u2014 and the triumph of waged over","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"May 1, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-05-01 10:51:00","modifiedDate":"2023-05-01 08:07:05","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-05-01 12:07:05","commentCount":"1","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/lakes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Great Lakes (Midwest)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/north-america\/lakes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Great Lakes (Midwest)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/19th-century\/' rel='post_tag'>19th Century<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/anarchist\/' rel='post_tag'>Anarchist<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/chicago\/' rel='post_tag'>Chicago<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/communist\/' rel='post_tag'>Communist<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/haymarket\/' rel='post_tag'>Haymarket<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/may-1\/' rel='post_tag'>May 1<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/revolutionary-history\/' rel='post_tag'>Revolutionary History<\/a><a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/tag\/socialist\/' rel='post_tag'>Socialist<\/a>","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":24,"sec":4},"status":"publish"},{"id":1149,"link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/rh-babeuf\/","name":"rh-babeuf","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Conjuration_des_egaux-scaled.jpeg","alt":""},"title":"Revolutionary History: Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals, 1796","excerpt":"A radical faction attempted to carry the French Revolution into an egalitarian utopia. Although they failed, their conspiracy would inspire revolutionaries for centuries to come, including Marx and Lenin.","content":"On 27 May 1797, the 8th of Prairial according to the new Republican calendar, Fran\u00e7ois-No\u00ebl Babeuf, sometimes called \u201cGracchus\u201d Babeuf, was executed by guillotine. A death sentence had been passed","author":{"name":"Cde-Editor Katsfoter","link":"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/"},"date":"Nov 29, 2022","dateGMT":"2022-11-29 15:00:00","modifiedDate":"2022-12-05 23:23:31","modifiedDateGMT":"2022-12-06 04:23:31","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/europe\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/\" rel=\"category tag\">All Content<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/global\/international\/europe\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Europe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/category\/all-content\/history\/red-history\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Revolutionary History<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","author":"<a href='https:\/\/clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org\/author\/kestar\/' rel='author'>Cde-Editor Katsfoter<\/a>"},"readTime":{"min":16,"sec":39},"status":"publish"}]